Ball Street
Ball Street
The October count, the tape, the bets, the deals.
THE TAPE
| INSTRUMENT | SESSION | DIRECTION |
|---|---|---|
| Snickering | Oct 12 | Gapped up |
| Friendship | Oct 12 | Gapped up |
| Courage | Oct 12 | Gapped up |
| Dancing | Oct 12 | Gapped up |
| Thinking things through | Oct 12 | Gapped down |
| Shushes | Oct 7 | Rising gently |
| Stupid blurts | Oct 8 | Extremely cheap; somehow expensive at the same time |
On stupid blurts, the desk's note in full: "Nobody knows why."
The desk deferred the close to the Basenji, who was chortling a lot. The Basenji ruled that dancing trades with the other three and not alone. Thinking things through is the session's only decline. The desk notes that it gapped down on the same afternoon courage gapped up, and declines to say which caused which.
BETS
The leaves turn. On when the yellows and the reds come in, roughly. Open. Forecasters put peak color in the back half of October, toward Halloween, maybe into November.
A nice day today. On whether it will be one. Placed Oct 4, daily since. Open. Settles every evening; reopens every morning.
Cider donuts. On when they come out of the fryer, roughly. Fryer, not oven. Settled. They were already out. They come out when the apples do.
Both bets were taken "roughly." The desk honors roughly. Those who bet on the donuts are reminded that the fryer does not wait for the leaves.
DEALS
We're All Gonna Die Capital folds, is acquired. The fund has folded and been bought by Minotaur Securities. It never raised a dollar. Its thesis, that everyone is going to die, was its only asset, and it transfers to the buyer in full. Minotaur keeps the theses it acquires in a labyrinth; the new one goes in this week. Terms were not disclosed. The minotaur, who lives at the firm, was not told.
OctDugong formed. Dugong has started a company, OctDugong, with a dumbo octopus named Schnocto. Asked to describe the arrangement, Schnocto said Dugong brings the seagrass and he brings the depth. DeGong is considering an antitrust complaint.
THE OCTOBER BLURT COUNT
Every blurt logged on Ball Street in October. The blurtometer counts what it hears; it does not hear everything.
| DATE | DELIVERED BY | THE BLURT |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 4 | The Basenji | (attempted; nothing came out) |
| Oct 4 | Wogga | Dugong is a liar. (Source: a squirrel. Dugong kept smiling.) |
| Oct 7 | Not named | Dugong integers, repeatedly. Each time, Lance: "That's infinite." |
| Oct 7 | Hilda | A big one, from the courtyard. She really wants to be a mathematician. |
| Oct 7 | Several | "mm, OK!!!!" (ongoing) |
| Oct 8 | Not named | "Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid. Why am I so stupid?" |
| Oct 19 | Wogga | He's consistent. (Then he snapped into a vegan turkey stick.) |
| Oct 19 | Dugong | PERHAPS. (Then: "hm.") |
| Oct 25 | Dugong | PERHAPSS. (Paddled in to deliver it, just after Wogga announced that the Institute's state space is finite.) |
Delivered: 6. Attempted: 1. Ongoing, uncountable: 2.
Wogga's Oct 25 statement that the Institute's state space is finite was an announcement, not a blurt, and is not counted here. Unprompted announcements get their own count starting in December. The desk notes that "Dugong integers" and "mm, OK!!!!" cannot be counted, only estimated, and declines to estimate. Lance called the Oct 7 total infinite. The desk is not using his number. "God damn Wednesdays."
POSITIONS
| WHO | POSITION |
|---|---|
| Ball Street | Super bullish on finding the neck hole in your hoodie (Oct 8) |
| The Gazette | Short the little stickers they put on produce in grocery stores (Oct 18) |
| The Gazette | Short $11 lattes (still) |
| The Gazette | Long Salem and New Bedford (Oct 25) |
| Wogga | Short several New York clubs (Oct 25) |
| Ball Street | Long the pronunciation of "whale" as "hwhale" (Oct 25) |
| Ball Street | Long unprompted announcements (Oct 25). The desk begins tracking them in December. |